Piano Courses

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas

15 reviews

Our relationship to Beethoven is a deep and paradoxical one. For many musicians, he represents a kind of holy grail: His music has an intensity, rigor, and profundity which keep us in its thrall, and it is perhaps unequalled in the interpretive, technica…

• Coursera
• 18 hours worth of material, 12 weeks long
• 4th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The New World of Arnold Schönberg's Piano Music

This course will introduce you to the solo piano works of Arnold Schönberg (including the Three Piano Pieces (Opus 11), Six Little Piano Pieces (Opus 19), Five Piano Pieces (Opus 23), Suite for Piano (Opus 25), and Piano Pieces (Opus 33a & b). Schönb…

• edX
• 5-10 hours a week, 10 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 3

Welcome to Part 3 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 3. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 4th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 4

Please join us for Part 4 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas course, taught by Curtis faculty member and extraordinary concert artist, Jonathan Biss. This course is new and contains separate sets of lectures and sonatas that we not previously discuss…

• Coursera
• 5 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 1st Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 5

Welcome to Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Part 5! You’re joining thousands of learners currently enrolled in the course. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the learning community. To begin, I recommend ta…

• Coursera
• 7 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Princeton University

Reinventing the Piano

4 reviews

The piano remains one of the great achievements of musical instrument design and has long served as a primary creative tool for musicians worldwide. In this course, we will look at how the piano’s design touches on a range of diverse topics, like: where…

• Kadenze
• 5 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

The Piano Sonata: Origins to Mozart

In this course, you’ll be introduced to sonata form; how it works, where it came from, and how sonatas are put together as multi-movement compositions. We will analyze the early history of the piano sonata and discover the important early masters of this…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Beethoven and the Romantics

In this course, learners will review sonata form and learn how the piano sonata was taken to new heights by Ludwig van Beethoven. We’ll discover together how the generation that followed interpreted Beethoven’s achievements and put them into practice in…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

The Piano Sonata: Russian and 20th-21st Century Composers

In this course, you’ll review sonata form and learn how the piano sonata was revitalized in the 20th century, with a particular attention to composers from Russia, where the sonata was an especially popular and successful genre. You’ll study some of the…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Piano I: Introduction to the Piano & Staff

2 reviews

This course presents five sessions in which the student is introduced to playing the piano and reading music. Each session contains a video lecture presented by the Instructor, piano practice assignments and graded assignments that include a quiz about m…

• Kadenze
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Piano Lessons Year 1

Syllabus: Lesson 1 The Grand Staff | Free Beginner Piano Tutorial - [Year 1] Lesson 1-1. Lesson 2: Treble Clef G and Middle C| Free Beginner Piano Lessons - [Year 1] Lesson 1-2. Lesson 3 Rhythm | Free Beginner Piano Lessons - [Year 1] Lesson 1-3. Les…

• YouTube
• 18 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Microcredential

Exploring Piano Literature: The Piano Sonata

In this 3-course specialization, learners will analyze important passages and components of the piano sonata repertoire, while gaining a solid knowledge of the sonata’s inner workings and a better sense of historical developments in the genre. Across the…

• Coursera
• 3 hours a week, 13 weeks long
• Paid Course

Piano II: Focus on Reading

This course presents six sessions in which the student continues to expand their knowledge of piano technique, repertoire and musical concepts, including eighth notes, treble C pentascale, G pentascales, sharps and flats and intervals of 4ths, 5ths and 6…

• Kadenze
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Beginning Piano Unit 1

Syllabus: How to play your First Song on Piano | Hoffman Academy Piano Lesson 1. How to Improvise With Hot Cross Buns | Hoffman Academy Piano Lesson 2. What is the Musical Alphabet | Hoffman Academy Piano Lesson 3. How to Find C, D & E on the Piano | Hof…

• YouTube
• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Curtis Institute of Music

Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Part 2

1 review

Welcome to Part 2 of Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas! I'm delighted to launch another set of new lectures of this course as Part 2. As before, this class is meant for people of all levels of experience with Beethoven's music (including no experience…

• Coursera
• 8 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 11th Oct, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)